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Lebanon Abruptly Nixes Plan for $122M Airport ‘Terminal 2’

A contract for a new terminal at cash-strapped Lebanon's main airport was cancelled following criticism that no public bidding was held for the $122 million project, Lebanon’s caretaker transportation minister said Thursday. Lebanon’s government last week announced the plan to construct terminal at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport and said…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon has 'no other way out' than IMF deal, U.S. official says

Lebanon has no alternative for economic recovery but to make progress on a deal with the International Monetary Fund, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.

Reuters

US Official: Lebanon Has 'No Other Way Out' of Crisis than IMF Deal

Lebanon has no alternative for economic recovery but to make progress on a deal with the International Monetary Fund, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf said in an online briefing on Thursday. Leaf, who visited Lebanon and other countries in the region in recent weeks,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Top UN court rejects Iranian bid to free assets frozen by US

The United Nations’ top court has rejected Tehran’s legal bid to free up some $2 billion in Iranian central bank assets frozen by U.S. authorities to be paid in compensation to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Iran

The Independent UK

Lebanon abruptly nixes plan for $122M airport 'Terminal 2'

Lebanon’s caretaker transportation minister says the contract for a new terminal at the country's main airport is cancelled, following an uproar over the lack of public bidding for the $122 million project

The Independent UK

Middle East round-up: Israel pauses its political crisis, for now

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

Al Jazeera

After timezone fiasco, Lebanese ask for real change

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Lebanese say they want real action from their government, but don’t expect it.

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Hezbollah Admits Impasse with Bassil

Hezbollah has most likely reached the conclusion that it was not possible to reach an understanding with the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil, over the election of Marada Movement chief Sleiman Franjieh as Lebanon’s president. Communication between the two sides has sharply declined over the recent…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Poverty on the rise in Lebanon amid deep economic crisis

Lebanon has been drowning in a series of crises since 2019. The economic, banking and political systems are in tailspin and the national currency has lost 98 percent of its value. With inflation in three-figure percentages for the third year running, eight out of 10 inhabitants now live under the…

France 24

Thousands of Prisoners in Lebanon at Risk of Starvation

Prisoners in crisis-hit Lebanon are not only deprived of their freedom - due to the constant postponement of trials as a result of judicial strikes – but also face a shortage of medical supplies, lack of hygiene, and an increasing risk of starvation. In fact, the prisons’ food crisis is…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gemayel: Hezbollah Will Not be Able to Impose a President on the Lebanese

The head of the Lebanese Kataeb party, MP Sami Gemayel, announced turning the page on a disagreement between him and the political aide to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, MP Ali Hassan Khalil, declaring his acceptance of the apology after a verbal dispute between the two earlier this week. On the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'I wanted to Express my Sadness over my Country,' Marylin Nooman to Asharq Al-Awsat

Surprise and fascination with the voice of Marylin Nooman appeared on the faces of The Voice France’s jurists. They were all listening to her with admiration and asking: “Who is this contestant? Where did she came from?” When she sang Serge Lama’s “Je Suis Malade” in Arabic lyrics, they knew…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bou Saab to Asharq Al-Awsat: Bassil's Reaction to Mikati's Decision on DST was Unconsidered

The Deputy Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Elias Bou Saab, expressed his “dissatisfaction with the repercussions” that resulted from caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s "ill-conceived" decision to postpone the Daylight Savings Time (DST). “Prime Minister Mikati bears the main responsibility for the decision.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon’s cabinet reverses decision to delay clock change

Lebanon has operated in two time zones as some businesses and institutions followed the order and others refused.

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Lebanon changes unpopular move to delay daylight saving time

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has reversed an unpopular decision made by his office to delay the start of daylight saving time by a month

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon’s Govt Reverses Decision to Delay Daylight’s Savings

Lebanon's caretaker premier said the cabinet had voted to move clocks one hour ahead on Wednesday night, reversing his decision to postpone the move to daylight savings time by a month that had sparked uproar across the country. Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday the decision had been taken…

Reuters

Lebanon's cabinet reverses decision to delay daylight savings time

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The Independent UK

Lebanon daylight savings delay puts country in two time zones at once

Workers discover they need to be in two places at the same time

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gov’t Decision to Delay Daylight Savings Puts Lebanon in Two Time Zones

Lebanon has woken up in two time zones amid an escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over the government’s decision to postpone winter clock changes till after Islam’s holy month of fasting, Ramadan, is over. Rising tensions, which reflected fragile ties between Lebanon’s social components, had forced caretaker Prime…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bukhari Meets Geagea: Saudi Role in Five-way Committee Falls in Lebanon Interest

The Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari on Saturday warned of the consequences of a vacuum at the top state post in Lebanon, stressing that the Saudi role in the five-way committee meeting is beneficial for the crisis-hit nation. Bukhari warned of the “consequences of not holding the presidential elections,”…

Al Jazeera

Daylight savings time dispute puts Lebanon in two timezones

Caretaker PM Najib Mikati’s decision to delay daylight saving until April 20 sparks a sectarian rift.

Reuters

Lebanon wakes up in two time zones as clock change row deepens divisions

Lebanon woke up in two time zones on Sunday amid an escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over a decision to delay the clock change by a month.

France 24

Small businesses in Lebanon struggle to stay afloat amid lira’s endless fall

Lebanon's ongoing economic crisis has left countless individuals and businesses to adapt to the harsh realities of the collapsing economy. FRANCE 24 met with Pierre, an officer in one of the state's security agencies, and Houssam, the owner of a trendy café in Beirut, who explain the challenges to sustaining…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Warns Situation in Lebanon Cannot Persist

US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf warned Lebanese officials on Friday that the situation in their country cannot persist amid the crippling economic, living and political crises it is enduring. Leaf had arrived in Beirut as part of a tour of the region that includes…

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